The Rise of the Third Reich

“Six days ago, on December 25, 1943 – the anniversary of the birth of Jesus – the most vicious enemy of the United States and Christendom, the Japanese Empire, chose this holy day to carry out the most brutal and shameless attack in the history of mankind.

The Japanese army and navy used the most powerful bacterial weapons in this attack - plague, anthrax, cholera, and other germs were made into weapons and dropped by aircraft on the land of Southern California in the western United States. superior. This was not an attack at all on soldiers and military targets, but on civilians, on defenseless women, children and the elderly. Considering the fact that germs are extremely contagious, this attack is also directed at all mankind, at least against the entire Christian civilization.

The purpose of Japanese imperialism is not only to defeat the United States and occupy its overseas territories, but also to destroy all Americans and other human beings who believe in God.

The facts of what happened on Christmas Day speak for themselves. The people of the United States have formed their own opinions and know very well that this is related to the safety and survival of our country and all human beings who believe in Christ.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that measures be taken for the sake of the affected people of Southern California, and that all measures be taken to defeat the enemies of the United States and of Christ.

But the nature of this bacterial attack will forever be remembered by our entire nation and by all who believe in God. No matter how long it takes to defeat this premeditated attempt to destroy us, the American people will definitely win absolute victory with their own righteous power. Moreover, a victorious counterattack is ready and is about to begin, and the bases used by Japan to launch germ warfare will soon be recovered by the US military..."

When Director of Strategic Intelligence Donovan and FBI Director Hoover walked into the Oval Office, Roosevelt was sitting quietly behind his desk, listening to his Nth fireside chat. The purpose of this speech It is to calm people's hearts that are floating due to germ warfare.

"Shut down," the president ordered.

"Yes, sir." Colonel Cotton, the presidential adjutant who entered the office with Donovan and Hoover, immediately stepped forward and turned off the radio, then gave a military salute to the president, then turned and left.

"sit."

Roosevelt said to the two top American spies in a gloomy and terrifying tone.

"Japanese bacteria have caused us great losses!" Roosevelt said. "The Director of the Federal Security Service just told me that as of December 31, in Southern California alone, more than 100,000 Americans have been diagnosed with plague, anthrax and cholera. 25,000, and there are tens of thousands of suspected cases. The number of deaths...has exceeded 2,000, mainly from the Black Death!"

The Black Death is the pneumonic plague, which is the most terrifying form of plague. It develops rapidly, with high fever and obvious symptoms of systemic poisoning. A large amount of bright red bloody sputum appears a few hours after the onset, and most patients die within 2-3 days!

Since there is currently no cure for pneumonic plague (in fact, streptomycin, a specific drug to treat pneumonic plague, has been invented and is being used in clinical trials, but Yersinia pestis has not been found to be sensitive to streptomycin), the plague dropped by the Japanese Fleas have caused staggering deaths and injuries in Southern California in a short period of time. In a short period of time, nearly 10,000 people were infected. Fortunately, most of them were bubonic plague, which can be treated with sulfonamide drugs.

As for the two germs of anthrax and cholera, the harm they do to the people of Southern California is not as great as the Japanese imagined.

Because live anthrax vaccines appeared as early as 1881, and in 1939, a non-encapsulated attenuated strain vaccine with very good results also appeared. In the United States, where the pharmaceutical industry is very developed, all high-risk groups (farmers, herdsmen, veterinarians, slaughterhouses, etc.) and fur processing workers) have all been vaccinated against anthrax. Moreover, penicillin, a specific drug for treating anthrax, has long been mass-produced in the United States. As long as you are not allergic to penicillin, anthrax infection is basically not fatal.

In addition, starting on December 26, U.S. military medical personnel have been vaccinating Americans who have been vaccinated against anthrax in various locations in Southern California. Therefore, the small amount of anthrax spore bombs dropped by the Japanese did not cause too many casualties.

Although there is currently no specific drug to treat cholera, it is relatively easy to control. Because Vibrio cholerae is mainly spread through food and drinking water, and after the California government discovered that the Japanese might use bacterial weapons, it immediately declared a state of emergency across the state, controlled the flow of people, and dispatched the National Guard in case of Japanese air strikes. The Southern California area distributed U.S. military wartime rations and bleaching powder (used to purify drinking water). Therefore, there was no major cholera outbreak in Southern California.

But the plague left Roosevelt feeling helpless. There was neither a specific drug nor a truly useful vaccine. Americans now only have the live attenuated plague vaccine, which has good immunity against the bubonic plague, but it cannot deal with the extremely lethal lung disease. plague.

In addition, controlling the spread of plague is much more difficult than controlling the spread of cholera and anthrax. Because plague can not only be transmitted through fleas as a vector, but can also be transmitted directly from person to person through droplets (pneumonic plague).

Roosevelt looked at the two heads of the U.S. intelligence agencies in front of him with a gloomy look, and told the unexpected bad news word for word: "This morning, the California National Guard responded to a bomb that crashed near Saramento. Bacteria bombs with intact ceramic casings were found on bomb balloons... filled with plague fleas!"

"Oh, God!"

"damn it!"

Hoover and Donovan both showed horrified expressions. There were ways to defend against the bombing of Me264 aircraft - now several major aircraft manufacturers in the United States were working overtime to produce night fighters such as P-61, F4U-2 and F6F-3N/E.

But who can guarantee 100% shooting down tens of thousands of bomb balloons every day? Moreover, if one Me264 is shot down, two very good pilots will die in Japan (an aircraft flying more than 8,000 kilometers must be equipped with two pilots), which is always a loss for Japan.

And there is no one on the bomb balloon... This means that if Japan uses bomb balloons to spread deadly bacteria, it can completely cause countless deaths of American people with zero casualties.

Moreover, the Me264 bombers taking off from the Hawaiian Islands can only fly to the west coast of the United States at most, while the bomb balloons can float to the central and even eastern regions of the United States... There are precedents like this before.

This means that the terrible plague epidemic can be spread to the entire United States outside the epidemic area of ​​Southern California by the Japanese bomb balloons at any time!

"We must stop the Japanese bacterial attack!" Roosevelt said. "Otherwise, countless Americans will die from the terrible plague."

Stop? How to stop?

"Mr. President, are we going to attack the Hawaiian Islands?" Donovan asked tentatively.

Roosevelt smiled bitterly, "I think the Japanese must be on high alert in the Hawaiian Islands, ready to hit our attacking forces."

"President, are we going to make peace with the Japanese?" FBI Director Hoover asked uncertainly.

Hoover knew about the secret peace talks going on in Switzerland, and knew that the Japanese had made very high demands - including ceding the Philippines, Guam, the Aleutian Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, all the US islands in the Western Pacific, Central Pacific and South Pacific, etc. ... It was obviously impossible to accept.

"It's impossible to make peace!" Roosevelt shook his head and lowered his voice, "We should have a better way... For example, germs will spread, and the germs in the epidemic area of ​​Southern California will definitely spread to other places, such as Europe!"

"What? Europe?"

Hoover and Donovan looked at each other and saw the expression of sudden enlightenment on each other's faces.

Roosevelt shrugged and said, "Yes, it's Europe... Now the traffic between North America, South America and Europe is not completely cut off. There are still some neutral countries, right? If some rats infected with plague in Southern California or other parts of the United States arrived in Portugal or other European countries, how would Hitler and Hessmann react?" "They would be mad at their Japanese allies," Donovan said. "The Nazi Party pursued racism and European supremacy. The Junker military aristocracy are conservative Christians and white supremacists... The fact that the Japanese released deadly bacteria to white Christians at Christmas is itself a great offense to the Nazi Party and the Junker Group. If these bacteria spread to Europe, it will definitely会让日本和德国的合作关系面临重大挑战！”

“是的！”罗斯福说，“没有德国的支援……哪怕只是暂时失去德国的支援，日本也只能被我们活活撕碎！你们知道该怎么做了吗？”

“我们知道了，总统先生。”

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“大岛中将，”就在罗斯福布置惊天阴谋的时候，德国帝国元帅赫斯曼正在措森的总参谋部会见日本陆军驻德国的代表，同时也是日本驻德国大使的大岛浩中将，“贵方一定同意提供对抗肺鼠疫的疫苗给我们了？”

在12月26日，赫斯曼得知美国西海岸遭到日本细菌武器攻击的当天，他就紧急约见了大岛浩，索取对抗鼠疫的疫苗。倒不是他预料到美国人会采取以毒攻毒的方法，而是细菌武器本来就有“传播不可控”的特点。

一战末期的西班牙流感和欧洲中世纪的黑死病从某种程度上说，也是“细菌武器”，两者都横扫欧洲，造成了无数人的死亡。

而日本在美国散播的细菌一旦失控，传播到欧洲不过是时间问题。 Once Japan's biological weapons caused heavy casualties in Europe, it would certainly arouse public indignation, and the relationship between Germany and Japan would inevitably break down completely.

So Hersman wanted Japan to provide vaccines at the first opportunity - white supremacy and racism could not resist the temptation of world hegemony, but letting bacteria run rampant in Europe was another matter.